Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Young Gilas, Sandstorm King!

Chapter 74 Flames...A Demon God?!

Even someone as tall and knowledgeable as him was horrified, his scalp tingling, and a chilling despair gripped his heart.

Bullets were much less effective against these fire monsters, and his defenses were crumbling!
And behind her... Xia...

Lou Gao's peripheral vision finally glanced desperately into the depths of the mine.

The light in that area seemed slightly dimmer than before, but it still resembled the core of a furnace.

He saw Young Gilas—the little monster whose body was almost entirely embedded in the vein of ore flowing with golden light, frantically devouring it!

Its rocky carapace had completely turned into a translucent molten state, with crimson-gold magma patterns surging and roaring beneath it. With each bite, a visible stream of golden light flowed down its throat and into its body, making its small body resemble a cocoon of light that could explode at any moment!
And next to Young Gilas...

Lou Gao's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of a pinhead!
What...what is that?!

A charred humanoid silhouette was curled up on the scorching hot ore!
No, it could no longer be called "humanoid"! Its skin and muscles were almost completely carbonized and peeled off, revealing large, terrifying, charred internal structures!
Only that skeleton... that skeleton, illuminated by the flowing golden light, presented a breathtaking crimson-gold hue!

That crimson gold color wasn't from the flames, but from the bones themselves emitting light!
Like being cast from the purest red gold, it faintly reveals mysterious and intricate natural patterns, greedily devouring the energy points scattered by the surrounding solar essence!
Inside the ribcage of the skeleton, where the heart should have stopped beating, a faint but tenacious golden flame is slowly pulsating as energy is absorbed!

On the charred skull, deep within the two empty eye sockets, two pure golden flames, like two miniature suns, quietly ignited amidst boundless pain and destruction!

"Xia... Xia..."

Lou Gao made a hoarse sound in his throat, the immense grief and a sense of absurdity almost suffocating him.

His disciple... was actually devouring the essence of the sun!

And... it was gnawed into a burning skeleton?!
In that instant when his mind was jolted and his movements faltered slightly—

boom! ! !
The burning lava dragon, carrying a raging storm of flames that could incinerate everything, smashed through the last few flaming corpses blocking its path. Its massive, burning head, like a meteorite, carrying a temperature so high it distorted the air, savagely lunged at Lou Gao, who was standing in the middle of the mine tunnel, his mind blank!
A scalding, foul-smelling wind carrying the stench of sulfur assaulted our senses! From the upper floors, we could even see the golden flames churning and the lava-like fangs within the beast's burning maw!
Finished!

The thought flashed through my mind in an instant.

Lou Gao instinctively closed his eyes, preparing to face the final impact and burning.

The AK barrel in my hand was scorching hot, and the magazine was empty; there wasn't even time to replace it.

However, the anticipated devastating impact did not occur.

An indescribable wave of heat, more violent and pure than the fiery behemoth before him, erupted suddenly from the core of the mine behind him, like a sleeping star awakening!

Om-! ! !
The air was instantly sucked out! Time seemed to freeze for a moment!
Lou Gao suddenly opened his eyes.

The fiery behemoth that charged forward with such ferocity seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall of pure heat!
Its massive, burning body came to an abrupt stop just meters above the building, as if a pause button had been pressed!
For the first time, a kind of instinctive, deep-seated fear was revealed in those burning golden eyes!
It didn't even dare to move forward an inch!
My heart was pounding from the height of the building, and I suddenly turned around!
Deep within the ore vein, at the core of that flowing golden light, a figure slowly and laboriously stood up.

It was no longer that withered, charred skeleton.

Beneath the charred, peeling outer shell, the crimson-gold bones, as if cast from divine gold, flow with an eternal luster.

Countless tiny golden streams of light, like living things, were forcibly stripped from the surrounding solar essence ore veins, from the air, and even from the burning soul beasts, and surged wildly toward the skeleton!

Wherever the light stream passes, the charred carbides are completely stripped away and annihilated!
With a chilling hissing sound, new tissues were growing rapidly on the crimson-gold skeleton at a speed visible to the naked eye!

It wasn't soft flesh and blood, but a golden-red substance that was as viscous and flowing as lava, radiating terrifyingly high temperatures!
They spread and covered along the contours of the bones, as if the earth were shaping new mountains!
Between the newly formed "muscles" flowed ancient and mysterious crimson gold patterns similar to those beneath the young Gilas's carapace, and each pulsation caused the surrounding raging fire elemental energy to resonate in response!

When the figure finally stood up completely, the two golden flames located deep in the eye sockets of the charred skull suddenly surged!
It was like two real suns being ignited!

boom! ! !
Two beams of golden light, condensed to the extreme and carrying the will to incinerate all things, suddenly burst out from those eye sockets, instantly piercing through the scorching air!
Where the beam of light swept, the air exploded as if being torn apart, and even space itself rippled with distortion!

The giant lava dragon, which stood frozen in front of the tall building and was burning, had its forelimbs lightly grazed by the edge of one of the beams of light.

There was no loud bang, no explosion.

Without a sound, the forelimb, thicker than a steel pillar and burning with golden flames, vanished instantly like melting ice and snow!
Not even a wisp of smoke rose!

The behemoth let out a silent, agonizing roar, its massive, burning body retreating wildly in agony and terror, crashing into a pile of flaming corpses behind it!
Lou Gao's AK-47 fell to the hot rocks with a thud.

He stood like a petrified statue, his mouth agape, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the figure slowly turning around deep within the mine.

Its bones are made of crimson gold, its muscles of molten lava, and its pupils of golden flame.

His entire body radiated a light of destruction and rebirth. With each step he took, the scorching rocks beneath his feet groaned under the weight, leaving molten footprints.

The raging fire elements, as if paying homage to a king, formed a roaring vortex of energy around him.

This...is this still a human being?

A tremendous fear, stemming from a life-or-death instinct and the prospect of facing a higher existence, instantly gripped Lou Gao's heart, leaving him ice-cold and his blood almost frozen.

Only one absurd yet perfectly fitting thought remained in his mind.

Flames...a demon god?!

Just then, Young Giras, who had been frantically devouring the essence of the sun while half of his body was "welded" to the mineral vein, finally stopped his heart-stopping feeding.

Its small body jolted suddenly and slowly detached from the ore that was flowing with liquid golden light.

Its form has also undergone a dramatic change. Although the outline can still be vaguely identified as Young Giras, it is now completely different from other beasts!

The rocky armor covering its entire body had now turned completely translucent, a reddish-gold color like cooled magma!

Beneath the shell, the color of black rock was no longer present, but rather a surging, roaring, viscous, golden-red lava!

Countless more complex and ancient crimson gold runes flowed and flickered on and inside its lava shell, emitting a terrifyingly high temperature that shared the same origin as Lin Xia's but was more restrained and intense.

Deep within its scarlet pupils, a concentrated golden flame also ignited, but it wasn't as violently outward as Lin Xia's; instead, it resembled the core of the earth containing endless lava.

An invisible aura emanated from its small body, intertwining and resonating with Lin Xia's aura, instantly raising the oppressive atmosphere in the mine several levels, making the air as thick as solidified magma!

(End of this chapter)